I put the fore deck on my Mill Creek13 and part of the deck, about 6 inches, lifted off of the Carlin approx. 3/16”. About all I can think of to try to fix it would be to finish trimming the excess wood and then c-clamp over the area with heat lamps on it. I’ve never tried anything like this before so my concern is if the wood flour/epoxy mix would soften up enough to press back into the Carlin and if so when I removed the heat lamps would the epoxy still have similar strength as before?
Hi Doug,
things like this happen. key questions to help sort out a repair:
-
if you compressed the deck down against the carlin, can you close the gap?
-
if you did one above, will you create a bubble or depression/wave in the deck?
-
how does it look fron the outside with the gap…do you even notice it or only noticed becuase you looked underneath?
the challenge with bubbles like this is its kind of like a blister - if you try to compress it down it lifts the skin adjacent to the blister….unless you can put a hole in the blister to allow the the fluid to be released. while we are not dealing with fluid here, depending on what has cured/fixed in place, sometimes. these gaps are hard to close.
that said, sometime the answer on things like this is, if it is not noticable, fill the gap with thickened epoxy and move on. or perhaps the answer could be after a test compression you can see that you can close the gap with no negative impact ….then its just about the technique to close the gap:)
h
Thanks again Howard! Your advice was spot on. I’ve trimmed the excess and will proceed with a dry run on installing the coming. If that doesn’t make it look out of sorts I’m definitely going to do what I do best, nothing.Right now I genuinely cannot see any appreciable difference.
Doug